A lot of eBay and Amazon Marketplace stores use algorithims to determine their prices by looking at the same product on other stores, and then marking up the price a little bit. This frequently leads to insane pricing on out of print items.

I’ve listed plenty of OOP items on AMP at silly prices, waiting to bring them down as other sellers react. Most of the time that happens, but sometimes the odd thing does go for what seems like a ridiculous price. (Never £2k though).

I’ve listed plenty of OOP items on AMP at silly prices, waiting to bring them down as other sellers react. Most of the time that happens, but sometimes the odd thing does go for what seems like a ridiculous price. (Never £2k though).

I’ve occasionally had good luck with ebay auctions, but only through bidders driving up an open auction price.

I once sold a single issue of Superman (that had only just come out) for more than £100: it was the Action Comics #900 anniversary issue that had the story about him renouncing his US citizenship in, and there had been a bit of a media circus around it. I was gobsmacked when the winner actually paid up.

The rest of the time? It’s people trying it on. I’ve found collectors might go up to 3-4 times the price for something they really want and if that undercuts everyone else, they’ll bite, but silly pricing? That gets dismissed quick.

I’m selling off a lot of stuff just now on eBay and I tend to just the the going rate; there’s a few books that are well out of print but I don’t think there is market for them.

I had considered pricing high, in the off chance one sells then I get some decent money for it, which would make it worth the wait of a few months of relisting - but it sounds as if there’s not much point in doing that.

Just a minor thing about the absurd pricing for this Thor Omnibus. the Coipel cover isn’t the variant edition anyway - 'its the “mass-market” version that Amazon and co. sold. The Kirby cover is/was the Direct Market variant( which I purchased and will not let out of my collection until death!)

So either the seller is very uninformed or he is really deliberately misleading potential buyers

There isn’t a hard rule. Sometimes the Marvel omnis use the original art for the mass-market version, sometimes for the DM version. It depends on which edition (and printing) of which omnibus it is.

(And some don’t have variants at all, and some have more than two.)

Often when omnis have been reprinted (and the original-art variant was hard to come by in the first printing), the original art is used for the regular cover of the second printing. So it may be that if that Thor omni ever gets a reprint, we’ll see the original art as the regular cover.

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